Question

Explain Arthur Kleinman's three recommendations for healthcare practitioners in addressing the needs of diverse cultures such as the Hmong: a. get rid of the term compliance; b. look for a model of mediation; c. culture of biomedicine is as just as powerful as the other (eg Hmong culture). Connect with the concept of cultural competence/ humility.

Answer 1

Arthur Kleinman is an American Psychiatrist and medical anthropology.One thing addressed by hinm is Hmong Culture recommendation for healthcare practitioner

a) it deals with the culture ,illness and care. It is a process of adhering to the treatment plan administered by someone who is professional or not or else someone with high powers.He disagrees in many ways to adher to this point.It may lead patient for failure because every culture has its own level of care and it differs in each culture

b)It is based on medico cultural also on semiotical analysis and comparison and treating the individual. It explains about the sickness. The languages acts as a mediation to treat the disease condition

c)It is different from most other healing treatment. It does not depend on the modernised technologies following age old practitions.

Cultural competence/humility

It is a sort of life long learning process for the healthcare practitioner.It is a form of equiping the healthcare practitioner